Re: [Indic-computing-users] Repost: IOSN-CDAC L10N How To and Toolkit

[Ravikant <rav...@sa...>]

Dear Sunil,

I spent some time reading the document and it is a fairly comprehensive start. 
I have a few further suggestions. 

1. We should also provide an index of projects undertaken, with links to 
status pages, so that people immediately know what is happening and how much 
has happened. Link to indlinux and other localization projects should be made 
available. 
2. We have absolutely nothing on Font Converters here. Can be added in the 
fonts section.
3. Spellcheckers like Asspell should be a part of the Guide.
4. Something on building public corpora. New wiktionaries, using existing 
disctionaries.  
5. There is no mention of community reviews, through wikis, or workshops. Open 
Office Hindi has suffered because it did not go through that process. I saw 
the hIndi version recently on a Fedora package in Linux Asia. Looks worse 
than microsoft.  
6. Ditto for Usability Tests/Workshops.
7. A note on Standardization, and problems people face. How Hindi Films, Mass 
audio-visual media could be the model. 
8.  Either remove 'read if...' in red (in Input Method section) or put 
something more there.
9. In the Encoding sections, please provide a few examples, of web pages that 
do exist. Link to Unicode site needs to be added.
10. How about adding a section on various indian Languages with links to 
groups, resources, lists, etc.     

Hope I am not getting beyond the boundary you set for this guide.

cheers
Ravikant      

On Tuesday 15 Feb 2005 4:56 pm, sunil wrote:
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> Reposting since I have not gotten any feedback yet. Hoping that I will
> hear at least some short comments from you.
>
> The near final version of the IOSN-CDAC L10N How-To and Toolkit is now
> available for a final round of comments and feedback.
>
> The main page contents listing of the CD is available at
> http://anakin.ncst.ernet.in/~aparna/consolidated/CD. It has links to the
> guide, as well as the list of tools we will include in the CD.  The
> guide is almost done. You can see the current version at:
> http://anakin.ncst.ernet.in/~aparna/consolidated in the HTML format. The
> final bit of edits are in progress on the last 2-3 chapters.
>
> We would be very grateful if you could send you feedback in the next 10
> days.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sunil
>
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